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Arthur Henfrey

1819–59

Botanist. Translated German works on physiological botany into English. Lecturer in botany, St George’s Hospital, London, 1847. Professor of botany, King’s College, London, 1854–9. FRS 1852.

Sources

DSB

ODNB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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